It’ll take a while to wrap your ahead around RSS. Best thing to do is realize that almost everything on the web has the ability to be an rss feed if it isn’t already.
Create 2.0 properties around certain keywords and terms, make master feed sout of themand promote, link to thos emaster feeds.
As far as the value for these links are concerned, it’s hard to tell but I ‘ve seen some dramatic increases in traffic just by re-publishing some posts on blogs that have this installed.
I consider using something like this an integral must-have part of your SEO arsenal since it can be set up in an hour or two depending on how many sites you have, and then it’s 100% completely on autopilot moving forward.
And these are quality links that stick, no matter their value therefore automating links that are “sticky” is good value, IMNSHO,
Dan